The council overseeing general schedule locality pay at the Office of Personnel Management recommended adding two new locality pay areas and changing the rules under which localities are eligible for higher locality pay.

Most federal unions have made no secret of their anger at the increasing disdain they have felt in recent years from leading quarters of the Republican Party—a sense that has grown much more pointed under the present White House.

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